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Lao Tzu, also rendered as Laozi and Lao-Tze, was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way), the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions.

READ THE TAO TE CHING

Let your heart be at peace...

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Verse One

The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the originof all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

Zen now

Zen then